Citizenship and its Discontents: An Indian History

By:

Jayal, Niraja Gopal

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ranikhet Parmanent Black 2013Description: 366pISBN:

9788178244600

Subject(s):

Humanities and Social Science

DDC classification:

323.60954 JAY

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Item type	Current library	Item location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	NIMA Knowledge Centre	9th Floor Reading Zone	General	323.60954 JAY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		L0011356

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This is the first ever history of the idea of citizenship in India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Niraja Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals embodied in the constitution have been challenged by exclusions based on social and economic inequality, and sometimes also, paradoxically, undermined by its own policies of inclusion.

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